Spoken Corpus comes to life Reading Answers- IELTS Sample

The IELTS Reading Section is one of the most important aspects of IELTS exam preparation. It is necessary to practice as many IELTS sample papers as possible to achieve the desired band scores on the IELTS exam. To help you in the preparation, here is a reading passage for practice on the topic 'Spoken Corpus Comes To Life,' complete with questions and answers.

Questions 1 - 5

Answer questions 1-5 which are based on the reading passage below.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.

Guidelines/Tip for Answering These Types of Questions: Candidates are asked to write no more than three words in this type of question. You can quickly scan the passage to answer these questions.

1. What revolutionized the content of the dictionaries and the way it is put together ?

2. How many volunteers participated in a project ?

3. Which team transcribed the tapes to produce a computerized database of ten million words ?

4. Who said research is impossible without computers ?

5. Who gained most of the benefits from the Spoken Corpus ?

Questions 6 - 10

Complete the sentences below.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.

Guidelines/Tip for Answering These Types of Questions: Candidates are asked to write no more than three words in this type of question to complete the sentences. You can quickly scan the passage to find the answer and complete the sentences.

6. The people who write dictionaries are called __________.

7. When the data was collected, the tape extended to about ______ the depth of the atlantic ocean.

8. Delia Summers, a director of ________, said research is impossible without computers.

9. __________ computer shows the innovative and humorous side of people on how they twist familiar phrases in their language

10. The Spoken Corpus is part of the larger ___________.

Questions 11 - 14

Complete each sentence with the correct ending, A–F, below.

Guidelines/Tip for Answering These Types of Questions: Candidates have to choose the right answer for the questions from the list of options provided as A-F. To answer these questions, read the passage carefully before making a choice.

Write the correct letter, A-F, as your answer to each question. 

1. search the different articles at a faster rate
2. the book the world has been waiting for
3. search quickly through more examples of real English
4. lots of vocabulary which contains all the unique words
5. has not appeared in the language learner’s dictionary previously
6. to vernacular language which has never been studied before

11. With the new form of dictionary, lexicographers have access

12.  The lexicographer Professor Randolph Quirk described the dictionary as

13.  The phrase it is now is one of the frequently used phrases which

14.  By using computers, Professor Geoffrey Leech said that lexicographers are able to